scoith

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by scoith 14y ago
Oh, you're making me cry. I'm leaving HN anyway, since it's already in a downward spiral. Sayonara.
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by scoith 14y ago
You are a faggot. I hope you'll lose a finger or two to yakuza.
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by scoith 14y ago
You. Yes. YOU. The guy who down-votes this post. You are what is wrong with HN.
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by scoith 14y ago
Really? Is this what you understand from guidelines? What's your next post? "I found a very delicious and interesting recipe on web. It was delicious and I think it's worth sharing with hackers ♥." Get out of here. Maybe the blame is this
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by scoith 14y ago
Why the hell was this posted on Hacker News anyway?
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by scoith 14y ago
Apple builds fancy gadgets and gathers a fan-boy population, and eventually starts selling more. This really doesn't say anything about Linux desktop. This whole thing about backward compatibility and the discussion that surrounds it is jus
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by scoith 14y ago
Yeah, tell me about those genius ideas invented by Apple that only 10 Einsteins could have come up with. Rounded corners? It's too fortunate for that that nobody patented their "innovative" stuff 50 years ago because it is totally ridiculou
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by scoith 14y ago
...which unfortunately doesn't cover a photon. I think you meant quantum electrodynamics or quantum field theory.
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by scoith 14y ago
Are we talking about the same thing? I'm talking about particle waves, or wave functions of particles, not a function which satisfies the wave equation (a photon happens to satisfy the wave function, but I'm trying to be general here) and w
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by scoith 14y ago
Save me the trouble an learn some basic physics. Read Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics, Chapter 7. If it's too complicated for you, read about waves. See how they propagate in time and space, and pay special attention to what happens to
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by scoith 14y ago
The problem with such interpretations is that they violate causality. Check out Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory for history. Concepts such as collapse of a wave function aren't necessary when you stop treating the observer in a special way
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by scoith 14y ago
This is not true. A wave propagates both in time and space. You're mixing these two. A negative frequency is like a wave travelling backwards in time, not left/right spatial direction.
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by scoith 14y ago
Don't push the idea of a wave in space too much, that's not how stuff works in quantum mechanics. See Feynman Lectures of Physics, Vol 3, Section 3-3 for a text at the introductory level.
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by scoith 14y ago
Please tell me you were trolling. Or that you're 10. Otherwise go read some basic mechanics from Goldstein's Classical Mechanics. And learn some basic mathematics. Classical state of a particle lives in the 2n-dimensional manifold known as
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by scoith 14y ago
And sometimes they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they forget all about you.
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by scoith 14y ago
I think there is a confusion here: our "mental" grasp of a physical process and intuition is tightly related to how the world works. We develop our intuition from real-world experience. They're not two separate things. This's also why quant
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by scoith 14y ago
Was there something wrong with the old definition?
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by scoith 14y ago
Tbe reason that functional programming languages, including LISP, will never dominate the world is because most people are doing engineering, not maths or getting out CS papers. CS people like to abstract away the computation from physical
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by scoith 14y ago
Using computers. And with computers, he means Mathematica.
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by scoith 14y ago
His talk is fundamentally wrong. Turning real life problems into a mathematical form (in other words, modelling) is not a subject of mathematics.
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by scoith 14y ago
He's basically trying to sell Mathematica.
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by scoith 14y ago
Lol! "I could teach myself more in an afternoon than I would learn in a 10-week class." Really genius? "Calculus B: F" Any it says repeated ! Why didn't you take five afternoons and graduate then? It is a well-known fact that becoming a "h
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by scoith 14y ago
As a scientist, I wouldn't worry about someone's lowered opinion who judges a scientific text by the font.
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by scoith 14y ago
How about switching to Go and using goroutines?
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by scoith 14y ago
Any programming language X people crying over "Real life X" ---it's always a sad story.
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by scoith 14y ago
@ruediger There's nothing wrong with Unicode. UTF-8 sucks because it ends up taking more space. @byuu No it doesn't. Try compressing a SJIS text using gzip. Then convert it to UTF-8 and do the same thing. With a "perfect" compressor, there
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by scoith 14y ago
That page is misleading when it comes to Japanese text: UTF-8 sucks for Japanese text. UTF-8 and UTF-16 aren't the only two choices within the whole world, which is demonstrated in their choice of encoding Shift-JIS.